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British businesses producing this good in Port Talbot were nationalized by Harold Wilson in 1967. A Sheffield resident who revolutionized the production of this good lends his name to an Alabama town whose Amazon workers (20[1])failed to unionize (20[1]0[1])in (0[1])2021. Responding (20[1])to a prize sponsored by Napoleon, Friedrich Krupp built a factory (0[2])in 1811 (20[1]0[1])named (20[1]0[1])for manufacturing (0[1])this material. (20[1]0[2])The London headquarters of the Hanseatic (20[1])League was named for (20[1])a (*) “yard” of this (10[1])material. (10[3])It’s not coal, (10[1]0[1])but Robert Schuman (10[1])helped organize a multinational economic community named for this good. (10[3]0[1])Production of this good (0[1])was made more efficient (10[1])by an invention of Henry Bessemer. (10[5])For 10 (10[1])points, name this alloy essential (10[1])to building skyscrapers. (10[3])■END■ (10[6])

ANSWER: steel [accept steelyard; accept European Coal and Steel Community; prompt on iron or pig iron or metals or alloys] (The town is Bessemer, AL, named after Henry.)
<Michael Bentley, History - European - 1900+&gt; ~22450~ &lt;Editor: Michael Bentley>
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